Day 1,780: banditry

Instead, world affairs will descend into their natural state of anarchy that favours banditry and violence.

The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

Artwork of the day 
Salvator Rosa Sketching the Banditi
Thomas Moran
Date: 1860
Style: Romanticism
Genre: landscape

Word of the day 
banditry: a type of organized crime committed by outlaws typically involving the threat or use of violence.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banditry

Quote of the day
“A partial court is worse than banditry. Judges are enemies; there sleeps the law. In front of you the citizen’s neck Lies stretched out, quiet and without defense.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation